Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	great_a	river_n	9,026	5	7.1511	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57436	Certain proposalls in order to the peoples freedome and accommodation in some particulars with the advancement of trade and navigation of this commonwealth in generall ... / by Henry Robinson.	Robinson, Henry, 1605?-1664?	1652 (1652)	Wing R1670; ESTC R22464	21,532	30

such as paid them voluntarily except the Sonnes of Eli who for that cause were called the Sonnes of Belial as You may see 1 Sam. ch 2. from vers 8. to the 17. Ease many of the best of People of this Nation by dismounting that Ordinance for Treble damages for refusing payment which they doe most conscientiously and sincerely The work would neither be difficult nor chargeable Please only to Enact all Tythes c. payable at present to the Ministry to be paid unto Officers of the Common-wealth and that the Common-wealth allow a competent maintenance to all approved Preaching Ministers whether in Parochiall or private Assemblies as hath been for many years and is still practised by the Provinciall States of Holland even towards the English both of the Presbyterian and Congregationall or Independent way at Amsterdam But this is not all the Inequality of Tything both of the Minister and Impropriator is destructive to Husbandry and occasions that Bread-Corne is continually so scarce and dear amongst us to prevent which It may likely be found expedient that such lands as are plowed be rated by the acre and rather pay lesse then other land in regard of the great charge and consequently hazzard the Husband-man is at in plowing of them up whereby he may be encouraged to plow greater quantity then formerly Be pleased to declare our freedome from being compelled to any manner of Oathes of Covenanting Engagements which as Light and Liberty burst out amongst us doe daily more and more discover not only the unnecessarinesse thereof but even the Evil and Entanglements into which they brought us unavoydably through the Peoples differing Judgements and apprehensions each one interpreting them and that rightly too in their owne sense whereby they think themselves obliged to persecute and oppose one another who before lived lovingly in Peace and might have still continued so had they not been joyntly engaged by Oath which it was impossible for them all explicitly to understand alike and consequently must find themselves bound to fall out and quarrell even for Conscience and their Oathes sake In the next place be pleased to cast your thoughts on what is to be enacted for the Recovery and Advancement of Trade The Councell of Trade are sayd to have prepared severall Bills in order thereunto and it is high time that not only all manner of obstructions be removed but also that all manner of Advantages be searched out and made use of before it be too late The first great preheminence which amongst Forraigne Nations the Hollanders and some others of the United Provinces have of us is In that their Inhabitants live together in Townes and Cities of indifferent magnitudes neither too little nor too big whereby they are enabled to accommodate and help themselves to the best advantage without making Provisions as to Food or Trading over dear The second is in that so many of their said Townes and Citties either lye Scituated by the Sea-side or have Navigable Rivers or Ditches from one unto another and so into the Sea by which meanes they have not onely all manner of Victualls brought so much cheaper unto them but also all manner of Raw or unwrought Commodities whereby their People are set a work and by this meanes can afford all sorts of Manufactures and Artificers work so much cheaper as is the difference betweene Land and Water carriage Thirdly they have most of their first materialls for building and rigging Ships cheaper man them with fewer persons and Victuall them with courser fare and at cheaper rates by which meanes they can carry all manner of bulkie Commodities the sraight whereof rises high so much cheaper as must necessarily beat us out of all Markets where they have a desire to doe it Fourthly they alwayes have great store of moneyes even whatsoever summes can be desired upon good security at Interest for four or five in the hundred Fiftly They have in a manner the whole Fishing Imployment as it were engrossed unto themselves I mean those of the United Provinces but chiefly the Hollanders and Zealanders which with Butter Cheese Rootes for little Flesh serves their turnes does not onely fully victuall themselves byt are by them exported into other Countryes in such great aboundance as that the whole Trade of those Provinces is but the Return of their Fisherie so manifoldly complicated as that it far exceeds and is of far greater concernment to them than all the Trade of these three Nations To countermaund which wee have no other remedy but to fly to their own weapons untill better present and that is 1. To make all Rivers Naviagable as much as may be and cut havigable Ditches in all places where the ground and scitutation will permit and where there are no Rivers neer unto the Towns already built nor possibility of cutting Navigable Ditches it will be necessary to see where such Navigable Rivers or Ditches may be made and accordingly have them cut with all convenient expedition and Towns and Cities built upon them in such manner as the sayd Rivers and Ditches may be brought through the said Townes and Cities is sundry Channells and that as much as is possible there be an outlet from the sayd Rivers or Ditches into the Sea 2. That without farther delay the Parliament order and see it put in execution that in all the Fenns already drained or to be drained there be no stragling Tenements or houses for any persons to live in except for Husband-men who are not to be farre from their work and Calling but that there be Townes and Cities built at an indifferent distance where People of all other Occupations are to reside and navigable Rivers and Ditches made from one to another and so into the Sea which may be done with so many and such great advantages as no part of the United Provinces doe yet enjoy the like and make those Fenny Lands which at present are unpeopled and so little worth become more fruitfull more populous and rich not onely than any part of England but even of the whole World as having the preheminence of being designed so from the first foundation and beginning 3. That the Parliament before the Nurcery of Timber for building Ships be quite destroyed whereof there wants but little I mean neer the water side to be had at easie rates it being almost thrice as dcare as it was about thirty yeares agoe doe prohibit not onely the cutting downe of Timber for Shipping but that none capable of becoming fit for Shipping be used for building Houses I mean about the walls in any part of England nor for firing but where there is no possibility of having Sea-coale or Pit-coale at moderate rates and that the Nation be put to seeke out and fetch from abroad all manner of Timber to build Ships withall before the day of our extremity till which if wee happen to deserre it we shall then in likelihood not be able to attaine it except by permission of